Inclusive MANAGERS & HR PROFESSIONALS Workshops
Gender balance workshops for managers and HR: transforming company culture through action
Gender balance in the workplace starts with HR professionals and managers who make decisions, give feedback and open up opportunities every day or unknowingly close them off.
Our workshops are designed to give your teams practical tools to advance gender equality at work where it truly matters: in management practices, HR processes and team dynamics.
The programme covers how to identify unconscious bias, adopt an inclusive management approach and create the conditions in which every employee, woman or man, can fulfil their potential and progress.
More than 6 800 managers and HR professionals have already raised their awareness through our programmes. They form an engaged community that believes a fairer culture is built day by day, decision by decision.
What these workshops bring to teams:
Understand the levers of gender balance
Through our interactive sessions, teams become aware of the challenges and of the impact their actions have in shaping an inclusive culture.
Equip for daily action
By better understanding unconscious bias, managers can adjust recruitment and career development practices to better support diverse and mixed-gender teams.
Encourage ownership and role modeling
These sessions foster peer exchange, allow experiences to be shared and challenged, and strengthen the role of managers and HR professionals as key agents of change.
“57% of 18- to 34-year-olds believe their company should increase diversity and inclusion in the workplace.”
Deloitte Study on Diversity & Inclusion, June 2023
Target audience & formats
- Managers, HR professionals, recruiters, and support functions
- Available in French or English
- Delivered in-person or remotely
Interested in organizing a workshop for your manager and HR teams?
Interested in organising a workshop for your manager and HR teams?
Why are managers the leading drivers of gender balance?
Gender balance cannot simply be decreed by an executive committee.
It is built through everyday actions: whom we recruit, whom we help to progress, whom we listen to in meetings and whom we assign to a strategic project. Managers make these decisions, often in seconds and often without appreciating their impact.
That is why managers are the primary drivers and sometimes the primary obstacles of gender equality at work.
💡Research confirms this: a study by McKinsey & Company (Women in the Workplace, 2023) found that women are significantly less likely than equally qualified male colleagues to be promoted to the first level of management, a phenomenon directly linked to unconscious bias among middle-level decision-makers. This invisible ceiling appears in the earliest years of a career, long before the top is reached.
Training managers in inclusive management therefore means intervening in the right place at the right time. It turns intentions into practical action and makes gender balance in the workplace not merely an HR policy, but an everyday reality.
What practical benefits do these workshops bring to your teams?
Diafora workshops combine scientific insights, peer discussion and scenarios grounded in real life. The aim is not superficial awareness-raising, it is measurable behavioural change.
💡More than 6 800 managers and HR professionals have taken part in our workshops.
Why is it important to align your workshops with your CSR strategy and D&I policies?
Raising your managers’ awareness of gender balance is good.
Embedding it within a comprehensive, consistent and measurable approach is what makes all the difference.
Too often, workshops on gender equality at work remain isolated initiatives, well intentioned, but disconnected from the organisation’s CSR commitments and Diversity & Inclusion policies.
💡The result: is awareness that fades, behaviours that struggle to change for the long term and D&I objectives that remain on paper.
Aligning your manager workshops with your CSR strategy and D&I policies creates a coherent system in which each action reinforces the others:
– CSR provides the framework and public commitments that give the initiative legitimacy
– D&I policies translate those commitments into concrete, measurable objectives
– Trained managers become the operational advocates who bring these ambitions to life every day
Questions / Réponses sur les Ateliers Mixité Managers et RH
Who are these workshops for?
They are for line and matrix managers, HR managers, recruiters and support functions, anyone whose day-to-day decisions affect women’s career paths and team culture. These workshops are designed for mixed groups of women and men, because gender balance is everyone’s responsibility.
How do these workshops differ from conventional D&I training?
Diafora workshops are based on recent scientific evidence, rooted in real-life situations and designed to encourage accountability without apportioning blame, this is what fundamentally sets them apart from standardised formats on the market.
What is unconscious bias, and why is it so difficult to correct?
Unconscious bias is an automatic mental shortcut the brain uses to process information quickly. In the workplace, it is particularly evident in recruitment and promotion decisions, we tend to favour people who are ‘like us’. It is not a discriminatory intention; it is a cognitive mechanism. Recognising it is the first step towards adjusting it.
Can these workshops really change behaviour for the long term?
Yes, provided they are well designed. Diafora workshops combine scientific insights, peer discussion and scenarios grounded in real life. The aim is not superficial awareness-raising, it is measurable behavioural change. More than 6,800 managers and HR professionals have taken part in our workshops.
How can we align these workshops with our CSR policy?
Gender balance is one of the pillars of the social dimension of CSR and an increasingly important indicator in ESG policies. Integrating evidence-based workshops into your D&I strategy protects you from ‘diversity washing’, a growing credibility risk in the eyes of employees, investors and regulators. Diafora supports you in building a coherent, measurable programme.
Are the workshops available in person and remotely?
Yes. Our workshops are available in person or remotely, in French and English, for teams based in France or internationally. The format is tailored to your organisational and geographical requirements.
What is the typical format of a Diafora workshop for managers?
A half-day to a full day, in groups of 8 to 20 participants, combining short evidence-based inputs, scenarios and peer discussion. Every participant leaves with a clear perspective and tools they can put into practice immediately.
Can these workshops be combined with other Diafora programmes?
Absolutely: indeed, this is recommended. The most effective approach combines workshops for managers and HR professionals (to transform organisational practices), open-enrolment training for women (to develop their leadership) and a mentoring programme (to embed change for the long term). This systemic approach produces far better results than isolated initiatives.
How do we get started with Diafora?
Contact us for an assessment of your gender-balance challenges. We analyse your context, current indicators and priorities before proposing a workshop programme tailored to your culture and objectives. Every engagement is bespoke, because gender-balance challenges vary across sectors, generations and organisations.
We Also Offer…
Mentoring Programme
A powerful lever for gender balance and inclusion to support the growth of your talent.
MIX & MATTER Workshops
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Gender Diversity Conferences
Interactive conferences to understand, get involved, and take action.
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